"You bitch! I'm going to kill you!" Willow screamed as she ran into the room.

"STOP WILLOW!" Buffy shrieked and ran after her. When she reached the bedroom, she saw Willow attempting to kill Faith who was trying to get away from her in the small space and with her injuries. "I SAID LEAVE HER ALONE!"

"Why? After everything she did to us? She should have died when you stabbed her!" Willow yelled with an obvious look of disgust at Faith.

"I'll explain everything if you just come with me into the other room," Buffy said finally managing to restrain Willow, but she gave her a look that asked "are you crazy" so she added," please, I wouldn't ask you if it wasn't important."

Willow reluctantly agreed and she left the room. Buffy stayed behind and said to Faith, "Just lay back down, I'll explain to them and they'll leave you alone. I promise."

Faith nodded and said, "Can I talk to you later?"

"Yeah, of course. Now get back to bed." And with that she left the room.

"Hey, uh, Buffy. I'm going to hang out with her, okay?" Angel asked.

"Yeah sure. I'm going to have to explain to them everything and it could take a while," Buffy said obviously dreading what was to come. Angel nodded and went back into the room and closed the door.

"So what is it that you have to explain then?" a very angry looking Willow said.

"Hold on. Hey, um could all you guys leave except Giles, Xander, Spike, and Willow?" Buffy asked everyone else in the room.

"No, I want Kennedy to stay," Willow said and noticing Buffy's disapproving look said, "If you expect me to listen to this 'explanation' then you're going to have to let my girlfriend stay."

"Fine, whatever. And no Dawn you can't stay. I don't care if you're my sister. I'll talk to you separately later." Buffy said and motioned for everyone else to leave.

"I'm waiting," Willow said.

"Okay. So, Angel and I decided that we needed more help and we decided Faith would be the best solution, becau." Buffy said, but couldn't finish because Giles, Willow, and Xander interrupted her. They all said different things that basically all had the same message, "Why didn't you discuss this with us?"

"Hold up, hold up," she yelled over the noise, "I thought you would have a bad reaction to the idea, and apparently I was right. I would have agreed it was a bad idea until Angel convinced me it was ultimately our best help against the First."

"You still should have come to us. I mean Faith is dangerous. How do we know she's not going to attack us while we sleep or something?" Willow asked.

"We don't, but I think she's changed. You would think the same if you'd have heard and seen the things I have in the past hour or two. It's obvious she's been through a lot by just looking at her," Buffy said preparing for the long story she was about to tell.

"What had Faith said now? 'Oh, poor me, I tried to kill some people in prison lately and got my ass kicked by the guards,' I can't believe you would think that just because she has a few scrapes that she is 'changed,'" Willow said interrupting Buffy every time she tried to say something.

"Well there's more and I'll tell it to you if you'd stop your little 'Faith is a horrible killing liar' speech," Buffy said who was more than a little annoyed by Willow.

"Please get on with it then," said Giles doing his signature nose bridge pinch.

"Okay. So Angel and I decided we needed Faith. And though I was still angry with her for everything, I realized that he was right. We chose today because we knew that you would have found an abandoned gym to use and would be there for a while. So he left a little after you guys began training. He picked her up and discovered that the guards have been raping and beating her up, and." Buffy said, but was unable to finish her thought because again she was interrupted by Willow.

"Oh please, you actually believe that crap? She's a slayer, she could kill anyone who tried to do something like that to her," Willow said skeptically.

"Well, if you would let me finish, Willow, you would understand," Buffy said as if she was talking to a child. Willow just sat there, pouting. Kennedy came up and started to rub her back.

"Please continue," Giles said.

"So she was raped and beat up pretty bad. Angel said he didn't think she had fought back hardly at all. She was crying and whimpering which, as most of you know, is not something Faith would normally do. So he finally arrived and when I saw Faith I got angry and began to repeatedly hit her. Something else I noticed, which later led me to believe Angel when he told me he thought she hadn't fought back against the guards was that she didn't fight back when I attacked her. After Angel pulled me off I saw all the cuts and bruises and I realized that, though many of them were from me, many of them weren't. So I could tell that she more than likely wasn't lying. So that's basically it," Buffy said taking in a huge breath to compensate for the lack of air she endured during her explanation.

"So you believe all of this?" Xander asked.

"Well, there's some evidence in her favor and what other choice do we have? We need her, Xander. Whether you want to admit it or not," said Buffy.

"But she's a psychopathic killer! Why would you want to hang out with her? Maybe she got her ass kicked in prison and then when you started to hit her, she was too weak to fight back," Willow said unable to accept what Buffy was telling her.

"She's not lying. She's changed. If you had seen her when I took her out of there, you would believe," Angel said entering the room and the conversation.

"I'm afraid I have to agree with Angel and Buffy. Those are very unfaith like behaviors. If we are to trust her I would, however, have Angel or Buffy stay with her at all times," Giles said, and when he saw the angry stares he received from Buffy and Angel added, "At least until we know for sure."

"I agree with him. I don't really know this Faith, but from the stories I've heard she sounds like fun," Spike said officially joining the conversation.

"Thank you for those wonderful statements, Spike, but you said it yourself. You don't know her and trust me it's not fun when she decides that she wants you dead," Xander said.

"And how would you know? Aside from the one time that you pissed her off or did whatever you did to make her try to kill you, what other experience do you have?" asked Spike.

"Well, um, she wanted to kill the professor and, well. ANGEL! Him too," Xander said but it was clear he was having a hard time naming people or somewhat people Faith had intentionally tried to kill.

"Uh, hello! If she wanted me dead she could have shot me through the heart and Buffy," said Angel.

"Whatever, I still say we kill the bitch and deal with this ourselves," Willow said.

"Oh, really?" Faith said who had just stepped out of the guest room.

Author's note: Hi! So how'd you guys like the chapter? THANKS FOR REVIEWING EVERYBODY!!! I really appreciate it. So from the reviews I received, it looks like you guys just want it to be Buffy and Faith. So that's what I'll do. I'll get the next chapter up as soon as possible, and thanks again for reviewing!